As I write this, Crystal has already been bit by the gardening bug and is out back weeding around the patio. We’re excited to see almost all our 4 X 4-foot boxes of flowers, all perennials, coming back up for the new season. I can only see the pointed top of her pink hoodie sweatshirt above some bushes she is crouching behind, so it appears a gnome has come into the garden.

Maybe I just have gnomes on my brain after our visit to “Shamrock City”. Here is a slide show of our trip, with music:

There is now a WEB PAGE on this site for my new radio show, and you will see that I have archived my first two shows there, if you want to hit the play button and hear them – each just under one hour long. They are also archived on the station site (see above web page for details). I have also recorded next week’s show and will post it on the page next week after it airs. The show airs on Mondays and Fridays at 5 p.m. and at 9 a.m. on Saturdays, one new show per week.

My article on film music in The Epoch Times was well received, and the next one has been submitted and approved to appear soon, on the wonders of the string instruments. For this, I interviewed a wonderful violinist, Luciano Marsalli.

Tomorrow I will be interviewed for a profile article in The National Catholic Register, a newspaper owned by TV/Radio network EWTN. I’m not sure when it will appear, but I’ll try to put the link here when it does, or check there directly.

We have managed to precast a few more roles for my Dear Miss Barrett show in June, and it’s going to be a wonderful cast! Full cast list to be announced as soon as possible on the SHOW WEB SITE.

Well, that’s all the news from Hilltop this time! Please feel free to “follow” this blog and/or leave a comment below.